Challenges and progress towards understanding the role of effectors in plant–fungal interactions

M Rafiqi, JG Ellis, VA Ludowici, AR Hardham… - Current opinion in plant …, 2012 - Elsevier
… lini (M. Rafiqi, unpublished data), accumulate in the host nucleus and may have a role in
manipulating host gene expression during infection. Kleemann et al. [25 •• ] identified numerous …

Recent progress in discovery and functional analysis of effector proteins of fungal and oomycete plant pathogens

JG Ellis, M Rafiqi, P Gan, A Chakrabarti… - Current opinion in plant …, 2009 - Elsevier
… Experimental progress in identifying host cytoplasm targeting signals in fungi, functionally
homologous to the oomycete RXLR signal, is being made (M Rafiqi, unpublished) and this …

Effectors of biotrophic fungi and oomycetes: pathogenicity factors and triggers of host resistance

PN Dodds, M Rafiqi, PHP Gan, AR Hardham… - New …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Many biotrophic fungal and oomycete pathogens share a common infection process involving
the formation of haustoria, which penetrate host cell walls and form a close association …

Identification of a protein from rust fungi transferred from haustoria into infected plant cells

E Kemen, AC Kemen, M Rafiqi… - Molecular plant …, 2005 - Am Phytopath Society
… Sequencing of these PIGs revealed a number of open reading frames that encode potentially
secreted proteins (M. Hahn, unpublished data). Identification of putative N-terminal leader …

Internalization of flax rust avirulence proteins into flax and tobacco cells can occur in the absence of the pathogen

M Rafiqi, PHP Gan, M Ravensdale, GJ Lawrence… - The Plant …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… In this study, we show by immunolocalization that AvrM protein of the rust pathogen M. lini
is transferred from haustoria to host flax cells during infection. We also demonstrate that both …

[HTML][HTML] The ash dieback invasion of Europe was founded by two genetically divergent individuals

M McMullan, M Rafiqi, G Kaithakottil… - Nature Ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Accelerating international trade and climate change make pathogen spread an increasing
concern. Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, the causal agent of ash dieback, is a fungal pathogen …

[HTML][HTML] The multiple facets of plant–fungal interactions revealed through plant and fungal secretomics

D Vincent, M Rafiqi, D Job - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The plant secretome is usually considered in the frame of proteomics, aiming at characterizing
extracellular proteins, their biological roles and the mechanisms accounting for their …

Structures of the flax-rust effector AvrM reveal insights into the molecular basis of plant-cell entry and effector-triggered immunity

…, AM Catanzariti, M Rafiqi, M Rahman… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
… (PIPs), and is recognized directly by the resistance protein M in flax (Linum usitatissimum), …
C-terminal coiled-coil domain mediates interaction with M. AvrM binding to PIPs is dependent …

N-terminal motifs in some plant disease resistance proteins function in membrane attachment and contribute to disease resistance

D Takemoto, M Rafiqi, U Hurley… - Molecular plant …, 2012 - Am Phytopath Society
… of L6 and M was used to change the localization of the L6 N-terminal fusion protein to that of
M and … Replacement of the signal anchor domain of L6 by that of M did not affect L6 protein …

In the trenches of plant pathogen recognition: Role of NB-LRR proteins

M Rafiqi, M Bernoux, JG Ellis, PN Dodds - Seminars in cell & …, 2009 - Elsevier
… Avr proteins; AvrL567 and AvrM are nucleocytoplasmic (M. Rafiqi, unpublished). This is
consistent with L6 and M being tethered to the membranes, with recognition domains being …